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INM Products
Integrated Network Management
Network Wide Backup & Restore Planning Guide
Standard Rel 1.0 July 1999
Update issue: 2 July 1999
What’s inside...
Network Wide Backup & Restore Description
Network Wide Backup & Restore Compatibilities
Network Wide Backup & Restore Engineering Considerations
Network Wide Backup & Restore Requirements
TCP/IP Network Requirements
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Copyright © 1999 Nortel Networks, All Rights Reserved. The information contained herein is the property of Nortel Networks and is strictly confidential. Except as expressly authorized in writing by Nortel Networks, the holder shall keep all information contained herein confidential, shall disclose it only to its employees with a need to know, and shall protect it, in whole or in part, from disclosure and dissemination to third parties with the same degree of care it uses to protect its own
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iii Publication history 0 July 1999 Oficial release, for GA load, of Network Wide Backup & Restore Planning Guide, Rel 1.0, update 0.2. June 1999 Oficial release of Network Wide Backup & Restore Planning Guide, Rel 1.0, update 0.1. May 1999 Draft release for internal review of Network Wide Backup & Restore Planning Guide, Rel 1.0. Network Wide Backup & Restore Planning Guide Rel 1.0 Standard July 1999
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iv Publication history Integrated Network Management Rel 1.0 Standard July 1999
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v Contents 0 About this document vii Network Wide Backup & Restore Description 1-1 Graphical User Interface (GUI) 1-2 Controller List 1-2 Controller List Filtering/Sorting 1-3 Refreshing View 1-4 User Preferences Tab 1-5 Print & Export Tab 1-6 History Tab 1-7 Recurring/Custom Storage Location 1-7 Details Window Description 1-8 Controllers Tab 1-8 Restore Tab 1-11 Restore Action 1-11 Recurring/Custom Storage Location 1-11 Stored Backup Window Description 1-11 Details Window description 1-12 Recur
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vi Contents TCP/IP Network Requirements 5-1 Ethernet 5-1 TCP/IP 5-2 LAN requirements 5-2 X.25 5-2 WAN requirements 5-3 Summary 5-4 List of terms 6-1 Integrated Network Management Rel 1.0 Standard July 1999
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vii About this document 0 This document describes the Network Wide Backup & Restore supported by INM. Network Wide Backup & Restore is a software application that allows customer to manage network wide controller backups, which can be used to aid in network restoration after catastrophic hardware failure. This software application provides the ability to centralize and automate backup of Network Element database and Subnetwork Controller configuration data onto an INM server. Audience for
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viii About this document Customer accounts managed in North America INM Customer Care provides technical support for INM customer accounts managed in North America. The support provided consists of emergency and regular technical support and an INM Product Services suite of additional support services. Use one of the following telephone numbers to reach INM Customer Care. If you are in Canada or the US Call toll free: 1-877-684-6622 (1-877-NTINMCC) If you are not in Canada or the US Call:
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About this document ix You can be charged a standard rate for service requests that Nortel Networks considers to be outside the scope or period covered by the product warranty. You can purchase extended warranty coverage and additional support services. These optional, value-added service packages are part of the INM Product Services suite. INM Product Services A full suite of optional, value-added services and service packages is available for purchase through the INM Product Services su
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x About this document EMC conformance This product/product family complies with the provisions of the Low Voltage Directive 73/23/EEC, and with the essential protection requirements of the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC as amended by 92/31/EEC, when it is properly installed and maintained and when it is used for the purposes for which it is intended. Integrated Network Management Rel 1.0 Standard July 1999
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1 1-1 Network Wide Backup & Restore Description 1- Network Wide Backup & Restore centralizes controller backup administration and storage by allowing all backup related activities to be managed at the INM platform. The Network Wide Backup & Restore Release 1.0 features are listed below: • Administration and Maintenance of all controller backups from 1 common graphical user interface on the INM platform. • A centralized disk oriented storage solution for maintaining backups that is more reli
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1-2 Network Wide Backup & Restore Description • Ability to print summaries of controllers being managed in both a readable, and comma separated value format. Graphical User Interface (GUI) The Network Wide Backup & Restore application is launched as a separate process from the GNB’s Configuration menu. Controller List This window contains information that the Backup & Restore application possesses about the controllers (refer to Figure 1-1). This controller list is used as the source of in
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Network Wide Backup & Restore Description 1-3 1 Figure 1-1 Controller List window 7 10 Controller List Filtering/Sorting This feature allows users to customize the controller list according to the options that are chosen. Network Wide Backup & Restore Planning Guide Rel 1.0 Standard July 1999
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1-4 Network Wide Backup & Restore Description The list is filtered by selecting the checkboxes that appear at the top of the controller list. The default is “All”, by de-selecting all and selecting the desired controllers, a list of controllers that fall into those contraints will be displayed. For example, if OPC and NPC were selected, then the controller list will display the controllers of type OPC and type NPC, complying to the constraints. It is possible to filter the table a control
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Network Wide Backup & Restore Description 1-5 1 User Preferences Tab Figure 1-2 User Preferences tab 7 Under the User Preferences tab will be the following preference setting options: Table 1-2 Preference setting options Label Input Widget values Default Description Log Level: option menu 1-5 1 Amount of detail to add to the log file. Print command: text entry max 80 char NULL For the Print & Export tab widget Concurrent Jobs: option menu 1-5 1 Number of concurrent ftp backup sessions possib
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1-6 Network Wide Backup & Restore Description Table 1-2 (continued) Preference setting options Label Input Widget values Default Description Describe option menu IP:Port, IP:Port How to describe controller in error/log Controllers as IP:Port messages. Name, Name Managed Error text entry max 80 char new Describes States errors can be set to in States widget the “Manage Errors” Tab. Print & Export Tab Figure 1-3 Print & Export tab Under the Print & Export Tab should be the following radio butt
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Network Wide Backup & Restore Description 1-7 1 The user would first select from the above radio buttons. The user next would select between “Printer” and “File” radio buttons (one must always be selected). If selecting “Printer”, the UI first defaults to the print command defined in the Preferences tab, but it can be changed. For “File”, the user must define an export file. History Tab The History Tab provides detailed information on the backups stored for a particular controller. It als
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1-8 Network Wide Backup & Restore Description located in the “Storage Location” defined in the “Recurring Backup” tab. To choose a custom storage Location, select the Custom Storage Location radio button and type in the directory where the backups reside. Alternatively, once the Custom Storage Location Radio Button is selected, the Browse button can be used to locate the repository for the backups desired. After the appropriate location is chosen, selecting the “OK” button, the informatio
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Network Wide Backup & Restore Description 1-9 1 Figure 1-5 Controllers tab The Controller Tab screen contains crucial information pertaining to the Controller in question, such as the IP, MOA IP, etc. Using this component of the Backup & Restore, the controllers can be added or deleted to and from the controllers list, respectively. 7 Table 1-3 Controller tab information Item Description Valid Inputs Controller Type The controller type field enables the selection of a The valid inputs for t
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1-10 Network Wide Backup & Restore Description Table 1-3 (continued) Controller tab information Add new This is selected if a new controller is added to the N/A controller network. This disables the delete feature of Save & Restore. Delete selected By choosing Delete selected controller, the N/A controller information of the selected controller will then appear in the appropriate boxes. Save Save makes permanent all the changes that have N/A occurred. Delete Delete erases the controller for
